Sentence examples for obstruct change. from inspiring English sources

But even if he manages to win, Mr Prodi will find it hard to introduce reforms not least because his coalition embraces no fewer than nine parties, several of which will obstruct change.

Old laws and prosecutors, the Islamists say, are protecting loyalists and holdovers while they obstruct change from within the bureaucracy and conspire with the opposition to stir up unrest.

"There can be little doubt of the true purpose of Eastlake's charter provision it is to obstruct change in land use, by rendering such change so burdensome as to be prohibitive.

He may relish the Democrats' discomfiture, but if he continues to obstruct change he risks losing a marvelous campaign issue that could help strengthen his party's slim Senate majority.

The Japan he took up the leadership of in 2001 had lain in the doldrums for 11 years, never having had the crisis that might have forced it into reform, but also never achieving a gradual, consistent, consensual reform either, thanks to the power of special-interest groups to obstruct change.

Resilience, however, is a variable, and its effects may be to channel rather than simply to obstruct change.

Any honest observer would acknowledge that unions do occasionally obstruct changes that are needed to improve schools, but so do superintendents (and chancellors), mayors, state legislatures and occasionally parents.

The LCL relied on Stott in the house, so Labor could obstruct changes by keeping members away and forcing a pair.

Farrakhan knows this only too well, because he has spent most of his life obstructing change in the Nation.

As householders and businesses braced themselves for massive disruption, business secretary Lord Mandelson said he was "beyond anger" with the union for obstructing change and modernisation.

Mr. Ignatyev will succeed Viktor Geraschenko, whose t two terms or more than five years as central bank governor were spent obstructing change.